(H/B) WOMEN IN PORT

Παρουσίαση

In the last few decades the scholarship on women's roles and women's worlds in the Atlantic basin c. 1400-1850 has grown considerably. Much of this work has understandably concentrated on specific groups of women, women living in particular regions or communities, or women sharing a common status in law or experience. Women in Port synthesizes the experiences of women from all quarters of the Atlantic world and from many walks of life, social statuses, and ethnicities by bringing together work by Atlantic world scholars on the cutting edge of their respective fields. Using a wide-ranging set of case studies that reveal women's richly textured lives, Women in Port helps reframe our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic World.
Contributors are Gayle Brunelle, Jodi Campbell, Douglas Catterall, Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook, Gordon DesBrisay, Junia Ferreira Furtado, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Philip Havik, Stewart Royce King, Ernst Pijning, Ty Reese, Dominique Rogers, Martha Shattuck, Kimberly Todt, and Natalie Zacek. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preliminary Material
Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women's Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic
By: Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell
Section One: Metropolitan Frameworks
The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville's Maritime District
By: Alexandra Parma Cook
Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century
By: Gordon DesBrisay
"Ports, Petticoats and Power?" Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia
By: Sheryllynne Haggerty
Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands
By: Natalie Zacek
Section Two: Traders and Travelers
The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500-1650
By: Gayle Brunelle
Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland
By: Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck
"Can She be a woman?" Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic
By: Ernst Pijning
Lives On the Seas: Women's Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire
By: Junia Ferreira Furtado
Section Three: Interactions and Intermediaries
Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750-1807
By: Ty M. Reese
Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women's Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region
By: Philip J. Havik
Housekeepers, Merchants, Renti?res: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790
By: Dominique Rogers and Stewart King
Conclusion: Women in the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect
By: Noble David Cook
Bibliography
Index